The author's point seems to be: "It's not that they don't know it's bad. They know, and they do it anyway. The fact that they know shows they're not stupid."
Umm, OK? I still don't get why, in the author's view, they do the bad thing on purpose, and why that is not stupid. (Perhaps the author might make say that doing a stupid thing doesn't make someone a stupid person, or something to that effect -- but, even if so, I don't see any sign of that argument in TFA.)
bpt3
Because it allows him to handwave away the harms produced by something he strongly supports.
People advocating for drug legalization do the same thing for example.
Umm, OK? I still don't get why, in the author's view, they do the bad thing on purpose, and why that is not stupid. (Perhaps the author might make say that doing a stupid thing doesn't make someone a stupid person, or something to that effect -- but, even if so, I don't see any sign of that argument in TFA.)